Various video recordings were made for the exhibition Republic at Sea in the Main Gallery. Jeroen van der Vliet, head of collections and research at The National Maritime Museum, together with investigative journalist Anna Gimbrère, went in search of stories about the Republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The history of slavery is inextricably linked to history. How is this addressed in the Main Gallery? Jeroen van der Vliet, senior curator , tells investigative journalist Anna Gimbrère.
In the second half of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic and England fought many naval battles. The painting 'The Battle of Texel' by Willem van de Velde the Younger is on display at the Main Gallery. Investigative journalist Anna Gimbrère and Jeroen van der Vliet, senior curator, take a look at Kijkduin.
The Lands Zeemagazijn, where the National Maritime Museum is located, was located in the epicenter of a Republic at Sea in the seventeenth century. Jeroen van der Vliet, senior curator, talks to investigative journalist Anna Gimbrère about a painting from the Main Gallery showing the activities surrounding 's Lands Zeemagazijn.
Few portraits of women can be found in the collection of the National Maritime Museum. Nevertheless, a painting of a woman can be seen in the Main Gallery: Constantia Bloemaert. Senior curator Jeroen van der Vliet tells investigative journalist Anna Gimbrère who Constantia was.